Amazon releases comic, plans movie

Published 10:35 am, Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The cover of the first issue of Amazon Studios' new digital comic "Blackburn Burrow."

The cover of the first issue of Amazon Studios' new digital comic "Blackburn Burrow."

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Amazon on Wednesday launched a crowdsourced digital comic book intended to pave the way for a movie.

"Blackburn Burrow" is a story about supernatural horrors infesting a small Appalachian town in northern Georgia during the Civil War. Writier Jay Levy first brought it as a film screenplay to Amazon Studios, the Seattle-based online retailer's digital content arm. Community feedback triggered the idea to make it a comic at first.

"Beyond entertaining lots of comic fans, we see value in digital comics as a new way to test screenplays and learn more about fan engagement," Amazon Studios Director Roy Price said in a news release.